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If exploring Southeast Asia has always been on your list, Singapore should be at the top. The country is known for its phenomenal food and street culinary adventures, but you can also discover unique history and architecture along the way, and even a booming nightlife.

If you’re visiting Singapore for the first time and don’t know where to start, here are a few of our suggestions to make the most out of your time in the city.

Southeast Asia is an area I have always wanted to explore, but being a little worried about language barriers, I decided to do a cruise solo through Holland America, starting in Hong Kong, and sailing through the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, and ending in Singapore.

When I realized the cruise did not include a lot to do in Singapore, with just a few sightseeing options on the way to the airport, I decided to extend my stay for a couple days. It’s a far flight from New York, and I wanted to really make it worthwhile and see what Singapore has to offer.

PART I — Where To Stay

Pan Pacific Orchard

There are so many hotels in Singapore, the amount of choices can honestly be overwhelming. Of course you can take into account where you want to stay based on things you want to accomplish during your time in the city, but since the spots I wanted to hit were scattered, I prioritized the amenities like a beautiful pool with a view.

This was definitely something important to me, especially for a city where its “cold season” is generally still in the 90s. The Pan Pacific Orchard offers another level of luxury, especially in the room I chose, which was the Beach Club Loft.

The two story suite had a sprawling, comfortable bed, a rainfall shower, a second floor loft with a seating area to relax in, floor to ceiling windows to let in natural light during the day, and private access to the pool whenever you needed to cool off. The hotel even offers a package that you can purchase to give you some extra amenities like daily laundry service, breakfast, afternoon tea, and more. If you know me, you know I love a good pool, so that private access to the pool right out of my room was enough for me to recommend this hotel, let alone the other extraordinary amenities offered. I was blown away!

Amenities:
• Direct access to the swimming pool
• Loft-style mezzanine with a sofa couch
• Pillow menu with hypoallergenic options
• 400-thread count cotton linen
• Floor-to-ceiling windows
• Energy efficient air-conditioning with intelligent technology
• Bedside control for lightings
• IT Concierge
• Turndown service upon request

Room Rate: Rooms start around $250 (the loft I mentioned starts around $575 and is worth the splurge)

BOOK HERE

PART II — Where To Eat

Mosella inside Pan Pacific Orchard

If you’re looking to indulge in some delicious Mediterranean cuisine, the restaurant inside the Pan Pacific Orchard offers fresh, creative dishes. They focus on ceviche among other light, fresh dishes like hokkaido scallop carpaccio with a light citrus dressing, grapefruit, and macadamia nuts.

I highly recommend the tender black cod with green peas, salsa verde, and asparagus, or perfectly cooked beef tenderloin.

Monster Day Tours
Singapore Street Food & Night Tour


With over 100 hawker centers, not to mention various food courts and delicious restaurants, it’s extremely difficult to choose where to eat in Singapore. I highly recommend, if you’re feeling overwhelmed, signing up for a food tour. They have a wide variety of tours based on different neighborhoods, night markets, street food, Michelin star restaurants, and anything else you’re interested in.

While exploring with Monster Day Tours, our group was able to try a variety of dishes, in addition to checking out the city. We stopped to see the light show at the Marina Hotel and went to a few different hawker centers to try some traditional dishes, and local specialties like century eggs (only if you want to). Our tour guide, Darius, was engaging and handled all of the food sampling, so we could sit and relax.

Price: $70/pax

BOOK HERE

Tiong Bahru Hainanese Boneless Chicken Rice

There’s a lot of foods that you should try while you’re in Singapore, and chicken and rice is definitely one of them. Now before you stick your nose up at this like I did, yes I am aware it sounds incredibly simple, but it’s a dish that they’re known for. The chicken is poached and the fat and juices run all throughout the rice. It was served hot with a flavorful sauce and quite delicious. Side note, a way of saving a table at the hawker centers is just by putting a pack of tissues on the table. There aren’t any napkins readily available, so people bring their own tissues with them as napkins, and will set them on an entire table to save it.

PART III — What To Do

Jane’s Tours

Jane’s Tours is a great way to dive into different neighborhoods throughout Singapore. I met with my guide, Elaine, for a 2-hour neighborhood tour called the Tiong Bahru Art Deco Treasures Walking Tour. We walked around the Tiong Bahru to check out some of the pre-and postwar architecture, the residential neighborhoods, local shops, and restaurants, and ended at a hawker center to try some local food. Be sure to stop at Cat Socrates for jewelry, art, home goods, and more, in addition to Yeni Draws for her beautiful art. After my tour of the Tiong Bahru area, I took an Uber to Joi Chiat (a tour of Joo Chiat & The Peranakans: Pastel Shophouses & Rainbow Tiles is also available).

Explore the Joo Chiat neighborhood

Joo Chiat is covered in murals with blocks of local boutique shops, restaurants, and cafés. The Peranakan Houses along Koon Seng Road are the ideal pastel backdrop for photos. Check out the merchant market on the weekends in the neighborhood after grabbing a latte and a chocolate mochi donut from Kōhī Roastery & Coffee Bar (283 Joo Chiat Rd, Singapore 427535). Explore the shops like Crane Living (Joo Chiat) for home goods and decor, or A Vintage Tale to find hidden gems to spice up your wardrobe.

Makansutra

With so many tours available, it can be difficult to choose between a wide variety of highly rated companies. KF Seetoh at Makansutra focuses on sightseeing and squeezing the most out of seeing the hawker centers and markets throughout Singapore. If you’re a foodie, his tours are phenomenal and he’s considered a street food expert.

Everyday Tour Company

If you’re interested in food and street art, Singapore has plenty of both. The Everyday Tour Company is ideal for showing around some of the best neighborhoods to try local cuisine and see street murals that might’ve remained unseen if you didn’t know where to look. We started at the Little India Tekka Market to try a variety of tropical fruits, including jackfruit. We tasted Briyani with masala fish, Appam with local sugar and coconut milk, Masala Dosa, and Indian sweets. We stopped to taste Bwa kwa (aka Singapore ‘jerky’) heading to the Chinatown complex to eat steamed rice cakes, carrot cake, sugarcane juice, and so much more, ending at a café for a cup of coffee and a slice of Singapore Chiffon Pandan Cake.

BOOK HERE

Explore the waterfront

Exploring in and around the waterfront in Singapore is definitely a must while in the city. Snap some pictures of Merlion by Lim Nang Seng at the waterfront. Don’t forget to grab a sweet treat from the local hawker center before watching across the way to the Marina Bay Sands Singapore for their famous light show.

Gardens by the Bay

Very well-known in Singapore is the Gardens by the Bay, more specifically the supertrees. Visitors can see other areas like the flower fantasy section, the observatory, and the skyway for an additional price, but seeing the supertree grove is actually free if you’re just looking to come for the light show and watch from the ground. The shows are at 7:45pm and 8.45pm daily (check their website or call for up-to-date information, as this can potentially change) and they’re often changing the theme of the show. Tickets for sale for other areas like flower fantasy (generally $20), the observatory ($14), the skyway ($14).

Grassroots Book Room and Chinatown

On the way to exploring Chinatown, stop into this local bookstore. Grassroots is great for picking up books, postcards, local art, pins, and more. From there, walk about 10 minutes to get to Chinatown and search for some of Yip Yew Chong’s murals while shopping for souvenirs and snacks.

PART IV — Clubs and Nightlife

Mama Diam
Mama Diam is a fun one! It’s a local speakeasy and when you walk inside, it immediately looks like a corner bodega. Open up the magazine wall, and you’ll be escorted into a bar full of energy and creative cocktails. Their food is incredible, as well, so if you’re looking for bar snacks you can order the chili soft shell crab bao buns or the corn ribs to have with your Nasi Lemak cocktail with sake, cucumber, coconut, and pandan or the OG Kopi with whisky, banana, and cold brew.

ATLAS
If you’re looking for a 1920s atmosphere with occasional live performances and delicious cocktails, Atlas is the ideal spot. This is definitely a martini type bar, with an upscale vibe where you can soak up your surroundings.

Lou Shang 楼上
Within the same area as Mama Diam is Lou Shang, a cocktail bar and cafe for when you need to relax with a drink or need a caffeinated beverage for a little pick me up. This is a great spot to enjoy some homemade noodles like their linguine with pig trotters, chestnuts, bok choy, and mushrooms or squid ink spaghetti with prawns, veggies, quail eggs, and squid. Grab a cocktail like the Evergreen with mint liquor, wheatgrass water, whiskey, green apple cordial, and singha soda.

Zouk
Zouk is known in Singapore as being a lively nightclub in the city that has been open since the early 90s. This is the place to go when you want to dance and listen to music, get dressed up, and throw back some drinks. Located within the Clarke Quay district, Zouk is a fun night out.

Joey Badass has found himself embroiled in an East Coast vs. West Coast brouhaha (which, to be fair, he asked for), so it’s the perfect timing for the Brooklyn rapper to take the Sound Check challenge with Uproxx’s own Jeremy Hecht. With this episode just ahead of his Red Bull Spiral freestyle, there was no way of knowing just how hectic things would be getting, but it’s surprisingly on-theme for this week, and there’s no better time to drop this one than now, with everyone buzzing about Joey vs. Ray Vaughn, Daylyt, and seemingly all of Los Angeles.

Here’s how it works: Jeremy plays two songs for the guest artist, who has to choose one and explain their choice, giving Jeremy a chance to learn their musical taste. Jeremy then has to guess the artist’s life anthem, the song they’d take to a desert island, which the guest wrote down earlier on a piece of paper. Our production team has also given him a decoy song, and Jeremy has to guess which is correct based on what he’s learned in the previous rounds.

This time around, Joey not only has to choose (naturally) between picks from The Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur, but also between New York rap legends Jay-Z and Nas (also apropos, considering rap battles are the topic du jour), and between a pair of his own songs from different points in his artistic evolution.

Watch the latest episode of Sound Check above.

The Yellowstone saga remains Taylor Sheridan’s biggest claim to TV fame, but his audience also knows not to sleep on his crime dramas. From Sicario to Mayor of Kingstown and Tulsa King, Sheridan has kept that fire steadily burning, and now, “possibly the most prolific writer of our time” (as Neil McDonough recently described Sheridan to Collider) will head back to movie theaters with a crime drama commissioned long ago by Warner Bros. Pictures.

Let’s grind through what we can expect from F.A.S.T.., a film that holds a few 1923 connections including the lead actor.

Plot

F.A.S.T will hail from a script written by Sheridan, and according to Variety, the story involves “a former special forces commando who is tapped by drug enforcement officials to lead a black op strike team against CIA-protected drug dealers.” Yup, Sicario and Special Ops: Lioness fans are gonna love this.

This long-awaited film commitment goes way back, even before Sheridan first struck an overall deal with Paramount (which first began in 2018). Since that time, Sheridan has brought more than ten original series to the small screen. That’s already not a small feat, but most of those shows have been running for multiple seasons, and yeah, he’s obviously one of the busiest producers and writers of Hollywood, so it’s a small cinematic miracle that Sheridan will now circle back to this movie.

With that said, Sheridan is not directing the film, which will be helmed by Ben Richardson, who directed many 1923 episodes along with scattered Tulsa King, Mayor of Kingstown, 1883, and Yellowstone episodes. The director’s chair will not contain the only link to 1923, however…

Cast

Brandon Sklenar, who recently concluded his 1923 run as Spencer Dutton, will star in F.A.S.T.. At present, he’s the only confirmed cast member, but this is welcome news (not only for Sheridan devotees but also for the actor) because Sklenar has been campaigning hard to reunite with Sheridan for Paramount Plus’ upcoming 1944 series. Of course, that wish doesn’t seem possible for a WWII-set story unless Spencer arrives in ghost form. Alternately, Sklenar suggested that Spencer could appear aged up with “some gout, a little hunch and some salt and pepper.” Oh really?

That oddness hasn’t been entirely ruled out from happening, but for the moment, Sklenar must be thrilled to be headlining another Sheridan title with F.A.S.T. Elsewhere, his career is doing more than fine due to appearing with Sydney Sweeney in The Housemaid adaptation coming later this year.

Also, nobody has ruled out Sheridan appearing in F.A.S.T. while shirtless because the dude loves to write himself a role for that purpose. He’s already flexed that way in Special Ops: Lioness and the final Yellowstone season, so bare-chested Sheridan is practically tradition now.

Some might even call that status obligatory.

Release Date

F.A.S.T. will land in theaters on April 23, 2027.

Trailer

Since it will be awhile before a trailer surfaces, it’s worth watching Sklenar rave about how much he already misses 1923. He won’t have to wait long before reuniting with Taylor Sheridan.

Yaya Bey‘s album, Do It Afraid, is now less than a month from release, and to celebrate that milestone, the singer shared the music video for its third single, “Raisins.” The new song was preceded by “Merlot And Grigio” in March, and “Dream Girl,” which accompanied the album announcement in April.

The video for “Raisins” is a blend of Black cultural traditions, from styling hair to line dancing at family reunions. Scenes of Yaya getting her hair curled and brushing a male companion’s hair are intercut with home video-like sequences of the family enjoying each other’s company in the front yard and relaxing on the porch. Each of the family members answers a question posed by the song: “Have you given up on that dream?”

As Yaya explains in a press release, “It’s hard to sum up ‘Raisins’ in a small blurb, but it’s the pursuit of love, joy and freedom with the full knowing that there will also be pain. It’s a surrender. It’s me giving myself permission to dream. It might not happen. But maybe the real joy is not in the materialization, but in the dreaming itself. The name is inspired by a Langston Hughes poem called Harlem where he says ‘What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?’”

Watch Yaya Bey’s “Raisins” video above.

Do It Afraid is out 6/20 via Drink Sum Wtr. Find more information here.

Yaya Bey’s 2025 Tour Dates

06/07 — New York, NY @ Governor’s Ball Festival
09/10 — Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts
09/11 — Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall
09/12 — Brooklyn, NY @ 99 Scott
09/13 — Washington, DC @ Union Stage
09/16 — Atlanta, GA @ Aisle 5
09/18 — Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall
09/19 — Urbana, IL @ PYGMALION
09/23 — Seattle, WA @ Neumos
09/24 — Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
09/26 — San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
09/27 — Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room

Tyler The Creator‘s partnership with Converse continues this week with the 1908: Archives collection. Launching on June 20, the collection includes retro versions of the Coach Jogger and the Naut-1 models from 1976 and 1971, respectively. While the former was released as an Olympic track shoe, the latter was meant for more day-to-day application — which both would likely fit these days, as actual performance shoes have evolved.

Tyler’s Converse collections have encompassed both entirely new shoes, like the GLF 2.0, and longstanding staples, such as the customizable Chuck Taylor All Star. The convention-bending rapper/producer first partnered with the brand in 2017, making their partnership one of the longest-standing between a musician and an athletic shoe brand, especially in hip-hop. It has also been one of the most successful, considering every release has sold out.

2025 has otherwise been a relatively quiet year for Tyler — and well-earned, thanks to the runaway success of his new album, Chromakopia. While the “That Guy” rapper hasn’t been super visible this year, though, he has joined the lineups of festivals like Osheaga, Lollapalooza, and Outside Lands, and earlier this week, revealed the dates for his 11th Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival.

For more information about the prices and release of Tyler’s latest Converse kicks, you can check out Converse.com.

People loved 2023’s Rat Saw God, the most recent album from Wednesday. Now, after going silent in 2024, the band is back with new music, a song called “Elderberry Wine” that’s out today (May 21).

The band’s Karly Hartzman says of the track:

“‘Elderberry Wine’ is about the potential for sweet things in life (love, family, success) to become poison if not prepared for and attended to correctly. Elderberry is known as a healing fruit, and is an ingredient in many tonics and syrups to aid the immune system. One time however, my sister consumed them raw and it immediately induced vomiting. So ‘Elderberry Wine’ is ultimately a love song about creating just the right environment for fulfillment. There’s a delicate balance that needs to be created, especially in love, for two lives to intersect without poisoning each other.”

The band is also set to showcase the song on a big stage, as they’ll make their TV debut on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert tonight to play the song live.

This is the first Wednesday in the while, but member MJ Lenderman is fresh off a huge 2024: Manning Fireworks was one of the year’s best-received albums, ranking near the top of the 2024 Uproxx Music Critics Poll.

Listen to “Elderberry Wine” above.

Bill Skarsgård hasn’t shied away from promising that Stephen King’s Pennywise the Clown will make a “pretty hardcore” return in It: Welcome To Derry. That revelation made the long wait for the HBO Max series feel more worthwhile, and that’s quite the turnaround from Bill’s early Pennywise days, which did not go well for Bill or his sleep patterns.

Despite his Pennywise being an unsettling hit during Andy Muschetti’s It movies, the Nosferatu actor didn’t plan on returning as Pennywise, but the (demonic) magic is happening again with the clown finally shown lurking in the sewer during It: Welcome To Derry‘s first full trailer earlier this week. The question remains, however (and since Pennywise habitually surfaces at 27-year intervals), when this series happens on the timeline of King’s It after the two Muschetti movies visited with the Loser’s Club in 1989 and 2016.

When Does It: Welcome To Derry Take Place?

Mainly in the 1960s. The trailer points toward 1962, but the series will also feature scenes from the 1930s when the Black Spot nightclub burns down. And that will propel the story further into the Mike Hanlon-focused interludes from within the It book.

Viewers can also expect other interludes to be adapted within It: Welcome To Derry, and Andy and Barbara Muschetti previously told Entertainment Weekly that “we felt that there was still a lot of story to be covered” from King’s vast novel, and “we are telling the stories of the interludes, writings by Mike Hanlon based on his investigation that includes interviews he conducts with the older people in the town.”

As King’s Constant Readers know, something rotten has always been going down in Derry, and the below trailer kicks off with a child attempting to hitchhike away from the fictional Maine city. Get ready to float.

It: Welcome To Derry will arrive in late 2025.

Gorillaz have been at it for about a quarter-century now, and they have eight albums to their name: Gorillaz (2001), Demon Days (2005), Plastic Beach (2010), The Fall (2011), Humanz (2017), The Now Now (2018), Song Machine: Season One — Strange Timez (2020), and Cracker Island (2023). (A new one’s coming soon, too.) The group is now readying to celebrate their oeuvre with House Of Kong, a new exhibition.

A press release says of the it:

“Visitors to House of Kong will take a jaunt behind the curtain of Gorillaz’ extraordinary world. A journey through the band’s life of misadventures, musical innovation and ground-breaking virtual ways since these four outsiders — bassist Murdoc Niccals, singer 2D, drummer Russel Hobbs and guitarist Noodle — first came together to blow up a pre-digital world with the release of ‘Tomorrow Comes Today’ in 2000. An exhibition like no other, House of Kong is an experience for the brave and bold.”

The exhibition will be hosted at London’s Copper Box from August 8 to September 3, from 10:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. Tickets are available here.

Ticket holders will also be able to access a pre-sale for four “very special standalone one-off limited-capacity live Gorillaz shows” at London’s Copper Box Arena on August 29, August 30, September 2, and September 3. More details about that are expected to be announced soon.

Brat was huge, but Charli XCX isn’t worried about following it up. In fact, she thinks her next album very well could “flop.”

Asked in a new Culted interview if she feels pressure for her next album to reach the culture-shifting heights of Brat, Charli said:

“I don’t really feel the pressure to create another record like Brat because when I was making it, even though I really believed in it and totally knew what I wanted to do with it, I had no idea how it would be received. I was really doing it for myself and marketing it in the way I wanted to for myself but I had no clue that people would kind of connect to it in the way that they did. So yeah, I don’t really feel the pressure because I feel that you can never really do the same thing twice and my next record will probably be a flop which I’m down for to be honest.”

She also spoke about the newfound success of “Party 4 U,” saying, “It takes me back to the time of the pandemic, really, because that’s when I was recording the vocals. It actually started a while before that — the initial idea. But we kind of never—I never really took it anywhere. So, yeah, now when I think of the song, I just think back to five years ago and how different the world was then. We were all inside. No one was hanging out. You know, it was kind of lonely.”

Read the full interview here.

The title of Sleigh Bells’ recent album, Bunky Becky Birthday Boy, is silly-sounding on its surface (in a press release, they give permission to laugh at it), but it’s actually emotional and meaningful: The first two words are in honor of Alexis Krauss’ beloved dog who is no longer with us, while the latter two are in reference to Krauss’ young son. The combination of terms ultimately represents life and death.

The album itself isn’t all doom and gloom, though, as songs like the relentlessly upbeat and entertaining album opener “Bunky Pop” show. It’s a mission statement for the album, too, full of in-your-face guitars, sugar-sweet hooks, and exciting rhythms.

Following the album’s April release, Sleigh Bells’ Krauss and Derek E. Miller sat down with Uproxx to talk about tornadoes, George Michael, AI, and more in our latest Q&A.

What are four words you would use to describe your music?

Miller: This is aspirational but: hopeful, ecstatic, sparkly, blue.

It’s 2050 and the world hasn’t ended and people are still listening to your music. How would you like it to be remembered?

Miller: I’m going to resist the urge to say, “It doesn’t matter; In fact, NOTHING matters,” and be sincere. It would be rad to be remembered as a band that pushed themselves and the creative process as far as they could, loved it completely, and went about the business side of things in an honest and fair manner.

Who’s the person who has most inspired your work, and why?

Miller: There are a few answers to this question… Alexis, H/D/H at Motown, etc., but I’m gonna go with George Michael. I used to sit with my legs crossed in front of the TV watching MTV, waiting for “Faith” to come on. The second the first shot of the jukebox appeared I would do a handstand and shout. “Faith” is so lean and tough in none of the obvious ways. And pretty. Old and new… a Bo Diddley rhythm with drum machines! All sorts of contradictions happening. Spicy adventure. The best of the best. He was scared but did it anyway… truly fearless and inspiring and that’s why I love him. We salute you, George. RIP.

Where did you eat the best meal of your life and what was it?

Miller: When I was about 6 or 7, I was playing tag with some neighborhood kids near my friend John S.’s house. We went inside for a snack… his mom gave us Capri-Suns and a bag of Sour Patch Kids. I ate a red one, my first ever, and lost my mind. I am still looking for it. Transformed me. Backup answer would be hot wings Dale style at Sports Grill in Miami. My favorite wing spot in the world.

Tell us about the best concert you’ve ever attended.

Krauss: Oof, this is tough. I have to say it’s a tie between the first time I saw LCD Soundsystem when we opened for them, and then Fleetwood Mac at MSG. I really couldn’t believe how incredible they were so many years into their career. The chemistry on stage was ineffable.

What song never fails to make you emotional?

Krauss: “Nothing Compares 2 U” by Sinead O’Connor.

What’s the last thing you Googled?

Krauss: Definitely something baby- or bird-related.

Where’s the weirdest place you’ve ever crashed while on tour?

Miller: This isn’t necessarily weird, but a handy thing back in the Poison The Well days was volunteering to sleep in seemingly undesirable spots while secretly liking those spots. Like beneath a bench seat in a 15 passenger van… I’d lay on top of a sleeping bag for extra padding/comfort and of course have a warm blanket and pillow. No dice if you’re claustrophobic, but I always loved it. It was dark and quiet and I could use my “sacrifice” when negotiating for other things like where to stop for lunch. Couple guys want to go to Wendy’s, I want Taco Bell, and since I suffer sleeping on the floor while you people sleep comfortably on the bench seats, we are getting tacos today! Only downside was sometimes the floor heating vent would be blasting you in the face. If you had a cold, which was common ’cause you’re forever loading in and out of a venue in the middle of a blizzard somewhere in the Midwest, your mouth would be open while you slept and the heater would blow directly into your lungs. Like sleeping with a blow dryer in your mouth. It hurt me.

What’s your favorite city in the world to perform and what’s the city you hope to perform in for the first time?

Miller: Massive fan of Chicago: shout-out Metro! Love a big city without the uppity factor. Shows are always high-energy. Great stuff. I’m pretty much down to play anywhere and everywhere as long as there’s a decent sound system to handle the subs/volume without dying and an excited crowd, big or small.

What’s one piece of advice you’d go back in time to give to your 18-year-old self?

Krauss: Not to care so much about what other people think of me.

What’s one of your hidden talents?

Miller: I’m a pretty OK cartoonist, not great, but it was the first thing I truly loved. Haven’t been surfing in a long time but I was dedicated, surfed competitively in the ESA and always made the final heat. Once when I was a kid, I was in the water at the same time as Kelly Slater at Sebastian Inlet. Seeing a human being move on the water like that with my own eyes was nuts. S/o Kelly the goat.

If you had a million dollars to donate to charity, what cause would you support and why?

Krauss: This would take a lot more than 1 million dollars, but free healthcare and quality public education to all kids.

What are your thoughts about AI and the future of music?

Miller: I feel AI should be used to advance education, engineering, science, medicine, etc. I do NOT support the use of AI as a writing tool. As a fan, I want to see people do a hard thing well because they are madly in love with it. This does not include entering prompts or however it’s done.

You are throwing a music festival. Give us the dream lineup of 5 artists that will perform with you and the location it would be held.

Miller: It would be held in my backyard and my dream lineup would look something like The Funk Brothers feat. Levi Stubbs and Martha Reeves, Deftones, George Michael, Janet Jackson, and Madonna performing The Immaculate Collection in its entirety. And if somebody had to cancel, maybe Nirvana or Public Enemy could step in. Or The Clash or Salt N Pepa or Burial???!????

Who’s your favorite person to follow on social media?

Krauss: I’ve been a big fan of Ilana Glazer since Broad City and I love following them now, especially since they’ve become a mom. I also love learning about wild edibles from Alexis Nikole. Oh and I just discovered a guy who sings songs to curious animals and it absolutely melts me: @plumesofficiel.

What’s the story behind your first or favorite tattoo?

Krauss: I was 19 and it was really important to me to get tattooed by a woman in NYC, since at that time there weren’t that many women tattoo artists, especially women shop owners. I got a pretty big traditional nautical style backpiece by Michelle Myles.

What is your pre-show ritual?

Krauss: Jump around a lot, run up and down stairs, drink water.

Who was your first celebrity crush?

Krauss: I was equally obsessed with Claire and Leo in Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo And Juliet. Oh my goodness, and that soundtrack just destroyed me. Still does.

You have a month off and the resources to take a dream vacation. Where are you going and who is coming with you?

Miller: I’ve had the privilege of traveling for work/touring since high school; Sometimes home feels like a vacation for me, so I’d like to spend some time just hanging around my town with Adam Yauch if he was still with us. I didn’t get the chance to meet him, but I love Beastie Boys and Adam underwent such a radical transformation in his lifetime…knucklehead in the Licensed era to compassionate human being, all while maintaining his sense of humor and making amazing art in multiple mediums along the way. Boss.

What is your biggest fear?

Miller: Outside of friends, loved ones, and just people in general getting hurt, I’m both attracted to and terrified of tornadoes. I’ve been in two. The first was a water spout when I was 12 or 13, the second was on July 13, 2022. It was an EF1, so not super crazy, but it tore right over my house/through my backyard while I sheltered in my scary-ass basement with all these spiders trying to crawl into my ears and lay their evil eggs. It’s a miracle me and my neighbors were unharmed: A big tree came down behind my house and took out a bunch of fences. But we lived!

Bunky Becky Birthday Boy is out now via Mom + Pop. Find more information here.